Hatmantha's Apothecary by CandleBird

made by CandleBird for Ludum Dare 49 (JAM)

Play as Hatmantha, a sentient animated witches hat tasked to forever pack crates and send them off to her creator! It's fast paced, arcade-y and surprisingly hard. All of the assets, art and gameplay mechanics were made during the Jam. A few minor bugs have been fixed (see below for details).

WASD to move, Click and hold bottles to pick them up and let go to throw them!

I had no time to actually finish the game! Here's what I ended up with. It's technically playable though and kinda fun!

Updated to Version 1.1: - Flipped one boolean that was causing only green and red ingredients to spawn after 10 crates. - Fixed a bug where the game scaled too fast because math - Fixed an issue that was causing the ingredient spawning to bypass spawning needed ingredients, instead favoring true randomness (unintended) - Fixed an issue that was causing the audio track to speed up too fast (would rather have made new tracks, but that would be too big of a change post-jam)

Link	https://candlebird.itch.io/hatmanthas-apothecary
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/hatmanthas-apothecary

Ratings

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Feedback

Franciszek Pyrć

10. Oct 2021 · 07:45 UTC

The game was fun, although the camera angle wasn't the best in most times, which is understandable. It feels very polished even with few models

Sceef

11. Oct 2021 · 04:21 UTC

good job

Knipsch

20. Oct 2021 · 02:46 UTC

First off, I'm a big fan of a title screen that also works as a tutorial -- really seamless and effective. I LOVE Hatmantha's design, with her weird glowing arms and little hat buttons. Her arm stretch when she starts is really charming and neat, especially because she's like 50% arm. UI elements were placed very nicely and used well. Sound effects and music worked extremely well together! The 'thump' when jars are added to the crates is extremely satisfying, and the way the key shifts up as the game goes on is really effective. If you add anything to this game in the future, I think some more environment art would add a lot. Otherwise, great job!